England 16th century 17th century deforestation and energy crisis

The structural argument for why American iron industry began — England exhausted its forests for charcoal (iron, shipbuilding, glass) and forced colonial relocation.

There's this book from Penn State University — there's a twelve-hour PBS series done back in the 1990s called The Impact of Metals on the History of Mankind. Pennsylvania is a state that has lots of steel companies, so they're interested in the history of metals. About halfway through, they start talking about the first energy crisis, which I've mentioned briefly before.